Famous Quotes & Sayings

You have to really watch the type of audience a sale is attracting. Some sales cater more toward purebred breeders, which are going to pay more than commercial buyers.

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that series ended, I thought that I would be going on more auditions and booking more jobs, but everything just came to a screeching halt.

Martin Henderson

I walked two hours to an audition once and was so sweaty that someone said, 'Oh, you guys from New Zealand don't shower.'

Chris Lynch

The market for unabridged, full-length books only started taking off over the last few years. And we think Hemingway will be especially popular for audio downloads.

The Marilyn Manson site we're building will have exclusive MP3s and Liquid Audio tracks. This is going to be happening more and more, and you'll only be able to get it from the artist's site,

The main audience is the public, and what it's fundamentally interested in is looking at a nominee, sizing him up. And that's what hearings do: see if he stands up under fire, see if seems like a decent, intelligent, upright person. He seems to have hit a home run.

Conan O'Brien

The ultimate responsibility to drop audio on something like that is mine. It's my show, 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien,' ... If I had to do it over again, I understand that word is offensive to people, it hurts people. I would say, 'Let's drop audio on it.'

Nina Tassler

The truth is, you can't sort of bottle and prepackage a show like Desperate Housewives. But I think the nice thing is, we know that audiences are making a commitment to serialized drama. And absolutely, we're going to continue to develop in that genre.

Jay Chandrasekhar

The truth is she would come in and did some auditions and they were quiet and small,

These guys have to be out there, in some of the worst and wildest places. That's where their hardcore audience is. Most of the guys who are hot resonate in the streets. And it's also where they will run into a lot of trouble. So in rap, just doing what it takes to be well-known puts you at risk.

Keith Stanfield

It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

Sam Raimi

It seemed like in the States, you could make a cheap movie if it was a horror movie, and it could look crumby without production value and still be effective for a sale, the audience would still be frightened by it and they wouldn't react badly to its cheap quality. So that's why we made a horror movie.

Jane Curtin

It seemed as though prior to all of the consolidation of the networks and everything, it was easier to get an individual voice heard on television, and that voice would be nurtured, ... Now it seems as though there is a formula that has to be followed, and I think the audience suffers.

This is one of the finest quartets this program has ever seen. Our audiences are in for a real treat at the 2006 master class.

This is one minute, an eternity in television, in which we're walking an 8- to 12-year-old audience through how to use a cancer stick socially. It's called product placement, where products are written into story lines of TV shows.

This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too.

This is the birth of a new clip culture where the audience is in control more than ever.

Queen Latifah

This is the best tour, man, and it's all women! ... I wanted to do this because I was excited about playing to a different audience than I might normally play to at a hip-hop show. The vibes are right.

This is the audience we are most excited to see the film with because so many of them are in the movie.

Stephen Amell

Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.

Will Estes

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

Robert J. Shiller

News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

Robert De Niro

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

Roger Ebert

I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.

Rod Taylor

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

Sarah Vowell

My audience is going to die before I do.

Rafe Spall

Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

L. Ron Hubbard

You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.

L. Ron Hubbard

You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.

Lesley Garrett

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Lena Headey

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

Tom Brokaw

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.